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erally fair sunday and monday colder sunday light variable winds highest 3 lowest 26 average Â°"- vol xi no 29 a m chicago examiner sunday registered in u s patent office this edition consists of i news drama s-news music autos t want ads 3 sports b real estate 4 foreign markets society financial s city life 9 magazine 6 editorial 10 comic price five cents sunday c * * * â€¢-* chicago january 15 1911 10,000 quit strike get open shop hart schaffner & marx offer ism accepted by the garment l makers union â– i 50 firms still hold out < i arbitration and work within 10 , days clauses mark treaty < | made yesterday i r hart schaffner & marx strike jtumber ot days strike lasted 107 komber of working days 92 kumber of strikers 10,000 wages lost at average of 1.25 per . lay Â„_.. w.150,000 other garment workers on strike kturvber of firms involved so kumber days of strike ? 9 number who qnit work 25,000 wages lost at average of 1.50 a day 962,500 cost of strike so far to all em ployers s<m>oo kumber now on strike according to strike leaders 25,000 kumber now on strike according to employers 5,000 the strike of garment workers against bait pcbaffuer & marx has been settled aud within teu days 10,000 strikers will be reinstated the settlement is practically baÃŸed on the offer made several times by the arm bu rejected by the strikers the most important feature is the withdrawal by tbe strikers of the demand for a closed a : . m nud the acceptance of an open-shop t . n.-iil the settlement was made by the strikers joint conference hoard and at â€¢ meeting last night the strike was ofb tiaily culled off after all the former employes have been p'ioyed the arm is authorized to take iu pick of workmen on strike in other shops discrimination is barred the peace terms are as fellows 1 all of the former employes of hart j frcbaflner _ marx who are now on strike hail be taken hack and shall return to work within ten days from the date hereof 2 there shall be no discrimination of acy kind whatsoever against any of the employes of hart schaffner &, marx be use they are or they axe not members of i tie united garment workers of america 3 an arbitration committee consisting f three members shall be appointed within three days the employes of hart schaffner & marx who are now on strike shall select one member thereof hart bchaffner & marx bhall select one within three days thereafter the two thus select ed shall immediately proceed to select the third member of such committee i subject to the provisions of this agreement said arbitration committee shall take up consider and adjust whatever grievances if any the employes of hart bchaffner & marx who are now on strike ball have and shall fix a method for set tlement of grievances if any in the fu ture the finding of the said committee r a majority thereof shall he binding pon both parties radicals delay peace the strike against the firm has been on iff days during that time the members of the firm have met the union officials j several times and offered plans for a settle ment these terms were indorsed t>y the federation of labor woman's trade union league hebrew workmen's conference and labor leaders generally the strikers however led by a radical element that wed allegiance the labor leaders state to no organization of labor prevented the cceptance of the peace terms and began an agitation to discredit the strike leaders the agreement accepted yesterday by the firm was adopted by the strikers in their meetings an effort was made since to discredit the peace terms but failed owing to the work of president eickert and other strike leaders in attending the meetings of strikers and explaining to them the benefits to be gained from such settlement fifty firms hold out fifty members of the national tailors association aud wholesale clothiers as sociation have so far refused to consider any plan of settlement by agreement they have announced that they will reinstate j all strikers and that the individual firms j will take up any grievances the strikers may have and adjust them owing to the many different hands through which a garment passes it will require several days to reinstate the j strikers of hart schaffner & marx the strike leaders agree with the firm that it should have the right to ta.ee back the strikers in such order that the shops can be thoroughly organized to do tbe work it was also agreed that those who can ot be immediately employed will be told on what day they shall return to work nnd i ft not employed on the date given wages win be paid from then on the meetings ef tl_e strikers will choose a committee to select an umpire and will meet at 75 ua salle street tuesday night for that pur pose taft's palate tickled by dasheen augratin new vegetable a substitute for po tatoes hailed with delight by washington gourmets washington jan 14 capital city ! gourmets were introduced to a new and i tasty article of food to-night at the an | nual banquet of the xatioual geographic j society in the shape of dasheen an gratia dasheen is a new vegetable discovery traced by one of the members of the j geographic society to its native habitat in . the orient other members later located | the mealy dasheen in africa madeira and the west coast of south america then someone wrote a monograph on it and the dasheen was transplanted in south caro lina the result was satisfactory aud so it fell out that at to-night's banquet as a substi tute for the humble hut useful potato of ireland tbe dasheen appeared ou the menu for the first time at a public func tion in the united states the distin guished guests who included president j taft pronounced it a distinct addition to the gastronomic catalogue n y opera change near belasco to manage new theater as annex in great building new york jan 14 a plan is being considered by william k vanderbilt j i'ierpont morgan and other millionaires of the directorate of the metropolitan opera house and the new theater to combine these two institutions under oue roof theatrical syndicate headed by the shn berts has offered to take over the pres ent new theater building a tentative offer is said to have been made to david belasco to take charge of the proposed new theater which will be built as a part of the new opera house a director of the metropolitan said that the project is made possible by tbe fact that the opera house is too small for present pur poses and the new theater too large for the productions for which it was orig inally intended 116,200 for illinois man joliet citizen inherits estate after queer will is broken the final account of harry watson ad ministrator of the estate of the late joseph melchoir known as melody choir was filed in the probate court to day and bo'ws a value in the estate of u6.__o the will of melchoir devising the estate to a monument fund for him self and dog hob was set aside three years ago by the court his mother mrs elizabeth melchoir being the heir-at-law since her death the claims of four sisters and brothers of melchoir have been pur chased by augustus melchoir who is awarded the entire estate he lives at joliet lu society forgets to pay mrs j t harahan jogs its memory over charity ball tickets . the charity ball committee is having some difficulty rounding up patrons who received tickets by mail used them to at tend the ball and then forgot to remit mrs j t harahan yesterday issued this jog to society's memory the charity ball committee earnestly requests that patrons who received tickets and used them will remit to the committee at once we find that many tickets were used for which no remittance has been re ceived it is impossible to make a final report and distribute the proceeds to the beneficiaries until these tickets are paid for asks law to save santa kansas senator would punish adult who disillusions child topeka kan jan 14 the mythical santa claus is to ihe protected by law if state senator robertson has his way the small child's sweet dream ot santa com ing down the chimney is to he kept a dream as long as possible or at least until the little one's reasoning power has caused him to exclaim of his own accord they ain't no such thing as santa claus cept mamma and papa senator rob i ertson said this afternoon that he will in troduce a bill providing a punishment for any person who intentionally destroys a child's faith in the marvelous santa noisy roosters are foiled with snuff kenwood poultry cause of complaints will merely sneeze says detective roosters shall uot crow th niornin cried detective dennis breen of the hyde park police station last night and his curfew-llke words are expected to bring sadness to kenwood chicken coops frederick fechheimer president of the j lincoln warehouse & van co will not be wakened from bis peaceful slumber at the i break of day nor will the police be dis turbed by hurry calls nor the owners of the offending fowls be haled into court if i the modern solomon's plan works o_t i complaint after complaint has been made | that every morning just at the time sleep 1 seems sweetest there arises a babal of sound in the most aristocratic section of j kenwood just as soon as the first rooster sounds the tocsin say the complainants about forty others take up the chorus until | llic din is deafening or at least most awak ! en ing breen reads of cure lieutenant joel smith was in despair he had read up the law on the subject and could find no remedy leave em to me sagely quoth dennis i've got a way to fix em how shouted lieutenant smith snuff said dennis with a grin you see it's this way i've read some poultry journals and find that snuff is good for chickens go ahead exclaimed his delighted su perior rooster can oniy sneeze so dennis fared forth aud carefully sifted snuff over the roosts of every offend ing cockerel the programme for this morning is that when tbe first rooster rises up and flaps ms wings he 1 need the si_i_f in Â« i__d around his head next he will try to crow but expert opinion says that the best he will be able to do will be to emit a very decorous sneeze this is calculated to waken the other chickens and when the hens try to cackle they too will sneeze and well that's all , girl foils armed robber strikes highwayman with muff and he runs away with it catherine hopkins eighteen years old 533 west sixty-first street succeeded in resisting the attempts of an armed high wayman early last evening who attacked her at west sixty-first street and stewart avenue the robber escaped with the young woman's muff which was found a short time later several blocks from the scene of the holdup miss hopkins was on her way downtown and was crossing stewart avenue when the robber ap proached he pointed a revolver at the girl and commanded her to hold up her hands instead she struck him with the muff and called for help the robber evi dently thought miss hopkins money was in the muff for he seized it and running south in stewart avenue escaped vanderbilt mum on n y c arrives from europe with mrs goelet and her son new york jan 14 w k vanderbilt sr was among the passengers who arrived to-day on board the provence robert w goelet who also came over accompanied his mother mrs harriet louise goelet mr vanderbilt was asked whether a cabled report that he had taken steps while abroad to dispose of some of his holdings of new york central railroad bonds was true i am sorry he replied but t cannot make any statement mr vanderbilt returned the same an swer to several questions as to the present business conditions in europe and this country capitalist ends his life henry clarkson scott of st louis insomnia victim shoots himself st louis mo jan 14 henry clarkson scott aged 52 a capitalist former pres ident of the laclede power company shot and instantly killed himself at 10:30 this morning in his bedroom at his home 64 vandeventer place he was president ofj the national light & improvement com pany and a director of the merchants laclede national bank it was said at his home this afternoon that the cause of the act was a mental breakdown he had suffered from insomnia for some nioilps 11l health was the only jause his ftftow bank directors could assign for the suÃŸ^e his fortune is estimated at 700,000 drexel builds pie for 3,000-mile trip goes after 50,000 purse ! millionaire airman plans route of supply stations in hearst sea-to-sea race i new york jan 14 j armstrong i drexel the american millionaire aviator who lives in england is making extensive preparations to win w r hearst's 50,000 prize for the first aeroplane flight from coast to coast it is probable that never have such elaborate plans been made to i win a prize as are contemplated by mr drexel he is now in england actively making ready for his epic feat at beaullieu in the hampshire forest the young philadel phian is working daily on the fraft he will use in trying to fly from los angeles to i new york for ten days he has been rum i magiug among the french aviation camps j to discover the best ideas to incorporate in i his machine j machine is bleriot type ! the aeroplane is being built by bleriot : under drexel's supervision it will be a ! monoplane drexel intends to carry extra ' equipment as well as food and drink and j clothing in the craft with which he makes j the tra us-continental flight | but he does not depend upon the carry | ing capacity of his craft to insure him i supplies those are only to be extraordin ! ary emergency aids the real science of i his preparations consist in the manner in ; which he plans to scatter aeroplanes motors parrs oil fuel and mechanics across the american continent plans supply bases on the map of the united states which he pores over at beaullieu he has traced his route and has mapped off the stations where he will deposit his materials the planning of these bases of supplies is evidence of unusual generalship as quickly as one section of the country has been safely left behind the supplies placed in the territory will be rushed along to another relay by automobiles and a special train if it is possible young drexel hopes to make the trip in less than the thirty day limit conditional under the rules drexel intends to come to arteries in may he plans to start on the flight arross ui ex_t_!_en in june or july viscount no gold hunter young english peer denies he is in u s to wed an heiress * philadelphia pa jan 14.â€”vis count exmouth edward adding n har greaves pellew as burke's peerage names him has not come to america to marry an heiress but merely he says to visit bis greataunt mrs j norman jackson of 100 pine street thus far and he has b-en here little more than twenty-four hours he has but one strong impression of america that it is a jolly foggy coun try he will be in philadelphia for five or six weeks and through mrs jackson he denied the rumors that he is seeking an heiress he is said to be the youngest peer in england next year when he reaches his majority he will take his seat tn the house of lords kaiser's kin a forger man who claims to be german count is arrested philadelphia pa jan 14.â€”ru dolph emmons of 423 north marshall street told a hard-luck story to magistrate belcher to-day which almost saved him from detention and 400 bail on a charge of forging a check for 24 i am a close relative of kaiser wilhelm of germany i am a count and was ex tremely wealthy until the san francisco earthquake destroyed the bank in which my money was kept he said i was driven by privation to commit the for gery that's pretty tough the magistrate said but i'll have to hold you in 400 bail for court society girl ends life miss rosalie murphy dies by hang ing in sanitarium waukesha wis jan 14 miss rosalie murphy daughter of the late d e mnr j phy one of the best known life insurance men in the northwest committed suicide to-day by hanging herself in a sanitarium here miss murphy was prominent in milwaukee society circles she went to the sanitarium several days ago for treat ment for a nervous disorder and her ill ness is given by friends as the reason for the act she was twenty-five years of cavalieri to avoid u s diva not strong enough to sing in i new york and boston special cable to the examiner paris jan 14 although she started for russia to-day to give six performances in st petersburg mme lina cavalieri i the wife of sheriff bob chanler of new york telephoned a correspondent that while her health had been restored she did uot feel strong enough to sing in new york or boston she has cabled her managers to this effect and does not expect any difficulties will arise from this cancellation of her en gagemente as she promised to go to america uext year braeanza becomes broker wife has 500,000 a year prince's mother-in-law said to have suggested that he go to work london jan 14 another ancient tradition has been nobly upheld louis of france bent ms head to the block with all the sneering scorn of the house of valois charles the first of england saun tered to his doom with all of the ancient courage of the stuart napoleon went to st helena with such noble bearing that his captors sorrowed for him and with all the hauteur and dignity of a prince of the blood miguel de braganza husband of the former anita stewart has gone to work with a paltry pittance of 500,000 per year bequeathed her from the estate of her stepfather silent smith his beautiful wife is nearly re â– duced to penury would miguel de braganza permit her to starve say not so ifor several weeks the scion of royalty has been going to stock broker's office at 10 o'clock in the morning and leaving at 5:30 in the afternoon just the same as an ordinary clerk subordinating his personal comforts to the necessities of his wife de bragauza is studying stocks and bonds tickers and tape and has been slaving in london wall street there are some who say that he is doing it at the behest of his stern mother-in-law he says he is going to continue to slave for five whole months and then when he has amassed a comfortable fortune and driven the wolf from the door lay his treasure at his wife's feet prince miguel of braganza and his oride the former anita stewart from a photograph taken after their wedding in scotland roosevelt berates ames as ananias upholds senator lodge and de nies he rebuked him for alleged grab boston jan 14 formei president theodore roosevelt got into the llasachu setts senatorship contest to-night when in a telegram to joseph walker speaker of the massachusetts house of represen tatives he vigourously upheld the cause of senator henry cabot lodge and charged representative b_tler ames with out rageous falsehood this telegram which was sent from oyster bay was called forth i by the publication to-day of an alleged statement by ames who is active in oppo sition to the candidacy of senator lodge for re-election the telegram reads as follows story told by butler ames reported in newspapers as to the alleged conversation between me lodge and newberry about purchase of colliers is a deliberate and outrageous falsehood i never made any such remark nnd no s-ch conversation ever took place * * * it is shocking to think that mr ames should invent such an out rageous falsehood about a public man of such rigid integrity and probity a false hood for which there is not even the smallest foundation of fact theodore roosevelt representative ames was quoted as say ing that roosevelt when president repri manded senator lodge in the presence of truman l newberry assistant secretary of the navy for an alleged attempt to force the purchase of two colliers at a cost of 1,500,000 ames says roosevelt after listening to newberry's explanation turned to senator lodge and said cabot i told you not to monkey with these things secretary newberry is abso lutely right " assistant secretary newberry refused to buy the colliers said ames it was a clear case of extortion upon the part of financial interests in boston who had these two boats 250 millionaires found y m c a uncovers them in phila delphia and asks share philadelphia jan 14 through the whirlwind campaign to raise 1,000,000 in a week for the benefit of the local y m c a it has been ascertained there are 250 millionaires in philadelphia and ten men who have more than 10,000,000 each iu the campaign to raise the money fifty of the wealthiest men have joined the dunning committee vltb the assist ance of these men the list of millionaires was compiled it is the intention of the dunning committee to request each of them to donate 1 per cent of bis fortune for the association benefit has hickory teeth weds mail carrier ninety years old takes a bride of thirty elizabethtown ky jan 14.-tir ing of single life frank forbish the oldest mail carrier in the country and who is wearing home-made hickory teeth was married to-day to mrs sallie hunt aj thirty-year-old widow the bridegroom is i ninety years old forbish ha p.-li.d for a pension from the government when lie loses a tooth he promptly makes himself a new one out of hickory law to oust vote board is plotted by sullivan gas clique angered at failure to boss judge owens com missioners plans to crab control before next election gilbert father of court bill and gorman are relied upon to handle the measure to block reforms in cook county threat to go down to spring field and kick things over is to be made good following rebuke by county jurist springfield 111 jan 14.-desperat to a point of unreasoning fury roger sul livan and his tossing raft full of political castaways have decided to swim under the democratic ship and scuttle it with their bare hands because county judge john e owens has proved too faithful to his sworn duty to permit sullivan and his bipartisan crew to operate the election machinery of cook county to suit their own peculiar purposes they have decided to divest him of the power the people elected him to exercise in the belief that they are living in those days gone by when any sort of highbinder legislation could be jammed through at springseld at the bidding of sullivan they have prepared an amendment to the elec | tion law by this they hope to take from i the county judge the right to name he chicago election board and place it with the judges of the superior aud circuit courts from a source close to sullivan ii wa i given out to-day that the bill would b prepared by representative hiram t gu ! bert father of the municipal coert a<-t | who would introduce it in the house at an ' early day in the upper chamber the bill ! is to be intrusted to senator a f gorman of the stock yards district who is eipecied | to work as only a sullivan tool can for tta ; passage republican voles expected the scheme presupposes that republican votes will flutter into the sullivan basket in sufficient number to send the bill through both houses with an emergency clause so that it will become law in time to bo operative at the chicago primaries feb ruary 28 no pretense is made that the attempt to juggle with the judiciary is anything ! more than a proposed political bludgeoning j for judge owens because he has refused jto allow the sullivau-demo-republican j gas gang to run his court and the election board for once the derelict managing committee crowd is honest concerning its purposes the plan for which sulh.an so con lidently counts legislative votes has been on the five since the day john e owen took tbe oath as county judge in his inaugural speech from the bench judg owens declared undying war on election corruption and promised the voters who had elected him that he would purify the ballot if he had to send the mightiest po litical bosses iu cook county to jail the threni to conduct elections honestly ingered greatly roger c sullivan de facto president of the peoples gas light & coke company said he in his wrath if john e owens goes too far well go down to springfield and kick the whol roger sets out to kick now roger is coming down to spring field but whether he will be accorded the delightful privilege of kicking the whole thing over is another matter to t his little bill through with an emergency clause which would turn the election commissioners office topsy-turvy on the eve of the primaries mr sullivan bill have to muster a two-thirds vote in i.oth houses the figuring at the man aging committee's dream parlor in the hotel la salle must have been careless and hasty when two-thirds of the forty seventh assembly were counted in favor of roger's pretty game in the first place while sullivan notori , i ously is able to get some republican votes when he needs them very badly in this i instance there is a person of the name of i charles s deueen standing in the way of i bis grabbing a great many of them i repeatedly governor deneen has declared ' that he wonld not be a party to any such deal as the snllivanites now are cook ing np and the hurbn rgh-jones combination that controls the senate which has thirty-four republican and seventeen democratic mem bers is in close sympathy with governor deueen in all matters the sullivan minions would have roughti j going in the senate than they have had l their futile pie hunt in cook county i since ejection day i the republican leaders foil to see how it would benefit them much to help a ton 2d page 3d column your first duty each day â€” read the examiner want ad pages if you seek a position or need help or have a house or real estate to dispose of you'll find someone who needs you or what you have to offer in these want ads now turn to the chicago examiner want ad pages phone main 5000

erally fair sunday and monday colder sunday light variable winds highest 3 lowest 26 average Â°"- vol xi no 29 a m chicago examiner sunday registered in u s patent office this edition consists of i news drama s-news music autos t want ads 3 sports b real estate 4 foreign markets society financial s city life 9 magazine 6 editorial 10 comic price five cents sunday c * * * â€¢-* chicago january 15 1911 10,000 quit strike get open shop hart schaffner & marx offer ism accepted by the garment l makers union â– i 50 firms still hold out < i arbitration and work within 10 , days clauses mark treaty < | made yesterday i r hart schaffner & marx strike jtumber ot days strike lasted 107 komber of working days 92 kumber of strikers 10,000 wages lost at average of 1.25 per . lay Â„_.. w.150,000 other garment workers on strike kturvber of firms involved so kumber days of strike ? 9 number who qnit work 25,000 wages lost at average of 1.50 a day 962,500 cost of strike so far to all em ployers soo kumber now on strike according to strike leaders 25,000 kumber now on strike according to employers 5,000 the strike of garment workers against bait pcbaffuer & marx has been settled aud within teu days 10,000 strikers will be reinstated the settlement is practically baÃŸed on the offer made several times by the arm bu rejected by the strikers the most important feature is the withdrawal by tbe strikers of the demand for a closed a : . m nud the acceptance of an open-shop t . n.-iil the settlement was made by the strikers joint conference hoard and at â€¢ meeting last night the strike was ofb tiaily culled off after all the former employes have been p'ioyed the arm is authorized to take iu pick of workmen on strike in other shops discrimination is barred the peace terms are as fellows 1 all of the former employes of hart j frcbaflner _ marx who are now on strike hail be taken hack and shall return to work within ten days from the date hereof 2 there shall be no discrimination of acy kind whatsoever against any of the employes of hart schaffner &, marx be use they are or they axe not members of i tie united garment workers of america 3 an arbitration committee consisting f three members shall be appointed within three days the employes of hart schaffner & marx who are now on strike shall select one member thereof hart bchaffner & marx bhall select one within three days thereafter the two thus select ed shall immediately proceed to select the third member of such committee i subject to the provisions of this agreement said arbitration committee shall take up consider and adjust whatever grievances if any the employes of hart bchaffner & marx who are now on strike ball have and shall fix a method for set tlement of grievances if any in the fu ture the finding of the said committee r a majority thereof shall he binding pon both parties radicals delay peace the strike against the firm has been on iff days during that time the members of the firm have met the union officials j several times and offered plans for a settle ment these terms were indorsed t>y the federation of labor woman's trade union league hebrew workmen's conference and labor leaders generally the strikers however led by a radical element that wed allegiance the labor leaders state to no organization of labor prevented the cceptance of the peace terms and began an agitation to discredit the strike leaders the agreement accepted yesterday by the firm was adopted by the strikers in their meetings an effort was made since to discredit the peace terms but failed owing to the work of president eickert and other strike leaders in attending the meetings of strikers and explaining to them the benefits to be gained from such settlement fifty firms hold out fifty members of the national tailors association aud wholesale clothiers as sociation have so far refused to consider any plan of settlement by agreement they have announced that they will reinstate j all strikers and that the individual firms j will take up any grievances the strikers may have and adjust them owing to the many different hands through which a garment passes it will require several days to reinstate the j strikers of hart schaffner & marx the strike leaders agree with the firm that it should have the right to ta.ee back the strikers in such order that the shops can be thoroughly organized to do tbe work it was also agreed that those who can ot be immediately employed will be told on what day they shall return to work nnd i ft not employed on the date given wages win be paid from then on the meetings ef tl_e strikers will choose a committee to select an umpire and will meet at 75 ua salle street tuesday night for that pur pose taft's palate tickled by dasheen augratin new vegetable a substitute for po tatoes hailed with delight by washington gourmets washington jan 14 capital city ! gourmets were introduced to a new and i tasty article of food to-night at the an | nual banquet of the xatioual geographic j society in the shape of dasheen an gratia dasheen is a new vegetable discovery traced by one of the members of the j geographic society to its native habitat in . the orient other members later located | the mealy dasheen in africa madeira and the west coast of south america then someone wrote a monograph on it and the dasheen was transplanted in south caro lina the result was satisfactory aud so it fell out that at to-night's banquet as a substi tute for the humble hut useful potato of ireland tbe dasheen appeared ou the menu for the first time at a public func tion in the united states the distin guished guests who included president j taft pronounced it a distinct addition to the gastronomic catalogue n y opera change near belasco to manage new theater as annex in great building new york jan 14 a plan is being considered by william k vanderbilt j i'ierpont morgan and other millionaires of the directorate of the metropolitan opera house and the new theater to combine these two institutions under oue roof theatrical syndicate headed by the shn berts has offered to take over the pres ent new theater building a tentative offer is said to have been made to david belasco to take charge of the proposed new theater which will be built as a part of the new opera house a director of the metropolitan said that the project is made possible by tbe fact that the opera house is too small for present pur poses and the new theater too large for the productions for which it was orig inally intended 116,200 for illinois man joliet citizen inherits estate after queer will is broken the final account of harry watson ad ministrator of the estate of the late joseph melchoir known as melody choir was filed in the probate court to day and bo'ws a value in the estate of u6.__o the will of melchoir devising the estate to a monument fund for him self and dog hob was set aside three years ago by the court his mother mrs elizabeth melchoir being the heir-at-law since her death the claims of four sisters and brothers of melchoir have been pur chased by augustus melchoir who is awarded the entire estate he lives at joliet lu society forgets to pay mrs j t harahan jogs its memory over charity ball tickets . the charity ball committee is having some difficulty rounding up patrons who received tickets by mail used them to at tend the ball and then forgot to remit mrs j t harahan yesterday issued this jog to society's memory the charity ball committee earnestly requests that patrons who received tickets and used them will remit to the committee at once we find that many tickets were used for which no remittance has been re ceived it is impossible to make a final report and distribute the proceeds to the beneficiaries until these tickets are paid for asks law to save santa kansas senator would punish adult who disillusions child topeka kan jan 14 the mythical santa claus is to ihe protected by law if state senator robertson has his way the small child's sweet dream ot santa com ing down the chimney is to he kept a dream as long as possible or at least until the little one's reasoning power has caused him to exclaim of his own accord they ain't no such thing as santa claus cept mamma and papa senator rob i ertson said this afternoon that he will in troduce a bill providing a punishment for any person who intentionally destroys a child's faith in the marvelous santa noisy roosters are foiled with snuff kenwood poultry cause of complaints will merely sneeze says detective roosters shall uot crow th niornin cried detective dennis breen of the hyde park police station last night and his curfew-llke words are expected to bring sadness to kenwood chicken coops frederick fechheimer president of the j lincoln warehouse & van co will not be wakened from bis peaceful slumber at the i break of day nor will the police be dis turbed by hurry calls nor the owners of the offending fowls be haled into court if i the modern solomon's plan works o_t i complaint after complaint has been made | that every morning just at the time sleep 1 seems sweetest there arises a babal of sound in the most aristocratic section of j kenwood just as soon as the first rooster sounds the tocsin say the complainants about forty others take up the chorus until | llic din is deafening or at least most awak ! en ing breen reads of cure lieutenant joel smith was in despair he had read up the law on the subject and could find no remedy leave em to me sagely quoth dennis i've got a way to fix em how shouted lieutenant smith snuff said dennis with a grin you see it's this way i've read some poultry journals and find that snuff is good for chickens go ahead exclaimed his delighted su perior rooster can oniy sneeze so dennis fared forth aud carefully sifted snuff over the roosts of every offend ing cockerel the programme for this morning is that when tbe first rooster rises up and flaps ms wings he 1 need the si_i_f in Â« i__d around his head next he will try to crow but expert opinion says that the best he will be able to do will be to emit a very decorous sneeze this is calculated to waken the other chickens and when the hens try to cackle they too will sneeze and well that's all , girl foils armed robber strikes highwayman with muff and he runs away with it catherine hopkins eighteen years old 533 west sixty-first street succeeded in resisting the attempts of an armed high wayman early last evening who attacked her at west sixty-first street and stewart avenue the robber escaped with the young woman's muff which was found a short time later several blocks from the scene of the holdup miss hopkins was on her way downtown and was crossing stewart avenue when the robber ap proached he pointed a revolver at the girl and commanded her to hold up her hands instead she struck him with the muff and called for help the robber evi dently thought miss hopkins money was in the muff for he seized it and running south in stewart avenue escaped vanderbilt mum on n y c arrives from europe with mrs goelet and her son new york jan 14 w k vanderbilt sr was among the passengers who arrived to-day on board the provence robert w goelet who also came over accompanied his mother mrs harriet louise goelet mr vanderbilt was asked whether a cabled report that he had taken steps while abroad to dispose of some of his holdings of new york central railroad bonds was true i am sorry he replied but t cannot make any statement mr vanderbilt returned the same an swer to several questions as to the present business conditions in europe and this country capitalist ends his life henry clarkson scott of st louis insomnia victim shoots himself st louis mo jan 14 henry clarkson scott aged 52 a capitalist former pres ident of the laclede power company shot and instantly killed himself at 10:30 this morning in his bedroom at his home 64 vandeventer place he was president ofj the national light & improvement com pany and a director of the merchants laclede national bank it was said at his home this afternoon that the cause of the act was a mental breakdown he had suffered from insomnia for some nioilps 11l health was the only jause his ftftow bank directors could assign for the suÃŸ^e his fortune is estimated at 700,000 drexel builds pie for 3,000-mile trip goes after 50,000 purse ! millionaire airman plans route of supply stations in hearst sea-to-sea race i new york jan 14 j armstrong i drexel the american millionaire aviator who lives in england is making extensive preparations to win w r hearst's 50,000 prize for the first aeroplane flight from coast to coast it is probable that never have such elaborate plans been made to i win a prize as are contemplated by mr drexel he is now in england actively making ready for his epic feat at beaullieu in the hampshire forest the young philadel phian is working daily on the fraft he will use in trying to fly from los angeles to i new york for ten days he has been rum i magiug among the french aviation camps j to discover the best ideas to incorporate in i his machine j machine is bleriot type ! the aeroplane is being built by bleriot : under drexel's supervision it will be a ! monoplane drexel intends to carry extra ' equipment as well as food and drink and j clothing in the craft with which he makes j the tra us-continental flight | but he does not depend upon the carry | ing capacity of his craft to insure him i supplies those are only to be extraordin ! ary emergency aids the real science of i his preparations consist in the manner in ; which he plans to scatter aeroplanes motors parrs oil fuel and mechanics across the american continent plans supply bases on the map of the united states which he pores over at beaullieu he has traced his route and has mapped off the stations where he will deposit his materials the planning of these bases of supplies is evidence of unusual generalship as quickly as one section of the country has been safely left behind the supplies placed in the territory will be rushed along to another relay by automobiles and a special train if it is possible young drexel hopes to make the trip in less than the thirty day limit conditional under the rules drexel intends to come to arteries in may he plans to start on the flight arross ui ex_t_!_en in june or july viscount no gold hunter young english peer denies he is in u s to wed an heiress * philadelphia pa jan 14.â€”vis count exmouth edward adding n har greaves pellew as burke's peerage names him has not come to america to marry an heiress but merely he says to visit bis greataunt mrs j norman jackson of 100 pine street thus far and he has b-en here little more than twenty-four hours he has but one strong impression of america that it is a jolly foggy coun try he will be in philadelphia for five or six weeks and through mrs jackson he denied the rumors that he is seeking an heiress he is said to be the youngest peer in england next year when he reaches his majority he will take his seat tn the house of lords kaiser's kin a forger man who claims to be german count is arrested philadelphia pa jan 14.â€”ru dolph emmons of 423 north marshall street told a hard-luck story to magistrate belcher to-day which almost saved him from detention and 400 bail on a charge of forging a check for 24 i am a close relative of kaiser wilhelm of germany i am a count and was ex tremely wealthy until the san francisco earthquake destroyed the bank in which my money was kept he said i was driven by privation to commit the for gery that's pretty tough the magistrate said but i'll have to hold you in 400 bail for court society girl ends life miss rosalie murphy dies by hang ing in sanitarium waukesha wis jan 14 miss rosalie murphy daughter of the late d e mnr j phy one of the best known life insurance men in the northwest committed suicide to-day by hanging herself in a sanitarium here miss murphy was prominent in milwaukee society circles she went to the sanitarium several days ago for treat ment for a nervous disorder and her ill ness is given by friends as the reason for the act she was twenty-five years of cavalieri to avoid u s diva not strong enough to sing in i new york and boston special cable to the examiner paris jan 14 although she started for russia to-day to give six performances in st petersburg mme lina cavalieri i the wife of sheriff bob chanler of new york telephoned a correspondent that while her health had been restored she did uot feel strong enough to sing in new york or boston she has cabled her managers to this effect and does not expect any difficulties will arise from this cancellation of her en gagemente as she promised to go to america uext year braeanza becomes broker wife has 500,000 a year prince's mother-in-law said to have suggested that he go to work london jan 14 another ancient tradition has been nobly upheld louis of france bent ms head to the block with all the sneering scorn of the house of valois charles the first of england saun tered to his doom with all of the ancient courage of the stuart napoleon went to st helena with such noble bearing that his captors sorrowed for him and with all the hauteur and dignity of a prince of the blood miguel de braganza husband of the former anita stewart has gone to work with a paltry pittance of 500,000 per year bequeathed her from the estate of her stepfather silent smith his beautiful wife is nearly re â– duced to penury would miguel de braganza permit her to starve say not so ifor several weeks the scion of royalty has been going to stock broker's office at 10 o'clock in the morning and leaving at 5:30 in the afternoon just the same as an ordinary clerk subordinating his personal comforts to the necessities of his wife de bragauza is studying stocks and bonds tickers and tape and has been slaving in london wall street there are some who say that he is doing it at the behest of his stern mother-in-law he says he is going to continue to slave for five whole months and then when he has amassed a comfortable fortune and driven the wolf from the door lay his treasure at his wife's feet prince miguel of braganza and his oride the former anita stewart from a photograph taken after their wedding in scotland roosevelt berates ames as ananias upholds senator lodge and de nies he rebuked him for alleged grab boston jan 14 formei president theodore roosevelt got into the llasachu setts senatorship contest to-night when in a telegram to joseph walker speaker of the massachusetts house of represen tatives he vigourously upheld the cause of senator henry cabot lodge and charged representative b_tler ames with out rageous falsehood this telegram which was sent from oyster bay was called forth i by the publication to-day of an alleged statement by ames who is active in oppo sition to the candidacy of senator lodge for re-election the telegram reads as follows story told by butler ames reported in newspapers as to the alleged conversation between me lodge and newberry about purchase of colliers is a deliberate and outrageous falsehood i never made any such remark nnd no s-ch conversation ever took place * * * it is shocking to think that mr ames should invent such an out rageous falsehood about a public man of such rigid integrity and probity a false hood for which there is not even the smallest foundation of fact theodore roosevelt representative ames was quoted as say ing that roosevelt when president repri manded senator lodge in the presence of truman l newberry assistant secretary of the navy for an alleged attempt to force the purchase of two colliers at a cost of 1,500,000 ames says roosevelt after listening to newberry's explanation turned to senator lodge and said cabot i told you not to monkey with these things secretary newberry is abso lutely right " assistant secretary newberry refused to buy the colliers said ames it was a clear case of extortion upon the part of financial interests in boston who had these two boats 250 millionaires found y m c a uncovers them in phila delphia and asks share philadelphia jan 14 through the whirlwind campaign to raise 1,000,000 in a week for the benefit of the local y m c a it has been ascertained there are 250 millionaires in philadelphia and ten men who have more than 10,000,000 each iu the campaign to raise the money fifty of the wealthiest men have joined the dunning committee vltb the assist ance of these men the list of millionaires was compiled it is the intention of the dunning committee to request each of them to donate 1 per cent of bis fortune for the association benefit has hickory teeth weds mail carrier ninety years old takes a bride of thirty elizabethtown ky jan 14.-tir ing of single life frank forbish the oldest mail carrier in the country and who is wearing home-made hickory teeth was married to-day to mrs sallie hunt aj thirty-year-old widow the bridegroom is i ninety years old forbish ha p.-li.d for a pension from the government when lie loses a tooth he promptly makes himself a new one out of hickory law to oust vote board is plotted by sullivan gas clique angered at failure to boss judge owens com missioners plans to crab control before next election gilbert father of court bill and gorman are relied upon to handle the measure to block reforms in cook county threat to go down to spring field and kick things over is to be made good following rebuke by county jurist springfield 111 jan 14.-desperat to a point of unreasoning fury roger sul livan and his tossing raft full of political castaways have decided to swim under the democratic ship and scuttle it with their bare hands because county judge john e owens has proved too faithful to his sworn duty to permit sullivan and his bipartisan crew to operate the election machinery of cook county to suit their own peculiar purposes they have decided to divest him of the power the people elected him to exercise in the belief that they are living in those days gone by when any sort of highbinder legislation could be jammed through at springseld at the bidding of sullivan they have prepared an amendment to the elec | tion law by this they hope to take from i the county judge the right to name he chicago election board and place it with the judges of the superior aud circuit courts from a source close to sullivan ii wa i given out to-day that the bill would b prepared by representative hiram t gu ! bert father of the municipal coert a